9781874166320 - the Insider's Guide to Parliament by Sedgemore, Brian (10 results)
- Softcover
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United KingdomAwesomeBooks
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Insider'S Guide to Parliament (Icon Insiders) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked a…fter thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
- Softcover
Seller: Bahamut Media, Reading, United KingdomBahamut Media
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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
- Softcover
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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
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- First Edition
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United KingdomBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. First edition, first impression. 144pp, with black and white illustrations. Illustrated, laminated stiff card covers. 8bo. A little rubbed at edges of covers, and slightly toned on text block edges mildly affecting pages edges. A little thumbed. A serious, but at times witt…y, general guide to Parliament and how it works by long-term Member of Parliament, Brian Sedgemore MP, featuring the Parliament and politicians of the mid 1990s.
- Softcover
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United KingdomWorldofBooks
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. What do MPs really think of each other? What are the fiddles and perks? What is the truth behind the sex scandels? Who really governs Britain? What does the Queen think of it all? All these questions and more are answered in this guide to the theory and practice, the history and personalities of…this institution. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
- Softcover
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
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Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. 1st.ed. A tidy copy in tight binding Used - Very Good. VG paperback.
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United KingdomRiley Books
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Laminated Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First. An excellent copy of this boo. Very minor edge wear to the top corner.144 very clean, illustrated pages.--- a no-holes barred guide to the theory and practice, the history and personalities of this extraordinary institution. Size: 81/2in x 71/2in. Simon Spilsbury (illustrator).…Book.
- Softcover
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United KingdomPlurabelle Books Ltd
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 144p large square paperback, illustrations, hardly used, very good Language: English.
- Softcover
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United KingdomCrappy Old Books
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Parliament is one of those institutions that most people vaguely assume is either a magnificent engine of democracy or a sort of overgrown Victorian theatre production populated by exhausted men waving paper at each other after midnight. The Insider?s Guide to Parliament by Brian Sedgemore MP suggests…, with considerable amusement, that both interpretations may in fact be correct simultaneously. This is a book that lifts the curtain on Westminster and reveals not a sleek machine of state, but a sprawling, argumentative labyrinth fuelled by procedure, ego, tea, ambition and the occasional constitutional crisis. Sedgemore writes with the tone of a man who has spent enough time inside the Palace of Westminster to stop being impressed by it, which makes him exactly the right guide. The result is gloriously human. Parliament emerges not as an abstract institution but as a peculiar workplace where ancient traditions survive largely because nobody can quite remember how to remove them without triggering three committees and a hereditary incident. One quickly realises that British democracy depends less on grand strategy than on exhausted MPs wandering through corridors at strange hours trying to find the right division lobby. The joy of the book lies in its dismantling of political mythology. Here are the rituals, rivalries and absurdities that television cameras politely avoid. Committees grind on endlessly. Speeches echo into near-empty chambers. Minor procedural manoeuvres acquire the dramatic importance of Napoleonic campaigns. Somewhere a minister rehearses outrage while another quietly hopes nobody notices he has misunderstood the briefing papers. Sedgemore captures beautifully the strange mixture of seriousness and farce that seems inseparable from British politics itself. Naturally, there is delicious irony in calling anything an ?insider?s guide? to Parliament, because one suspects that even many MPs only partially understand what is happening at any given moment. Westminster appears throughout as a place governed by arcane customs, coded language and constitutional improvisation. The British state often resembles an enormous stately home held together by precedent, confidence and slightly damp paperwork. Being published in 1995 also gives the book a particularly fascinating atmosphere. This was the twilight world before smartphones, social media outrage cycles and twenty-four-hour political branding. MPs still inhabited a semi-mystical realm where scandals took several days to mature and journalists occasionally had to leave buildings physically to file stories. Reading it now feels oddly archaeological, like discovering a manual explaining how steam locomotives were emotionally managed. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this copy is in Fair condition, with some fading to the cover, which somehow suits a political book rather well. The spine remains uncreased and the book appears generally unread, suggesting either admirable restraint or the possibility that its previous owner entered politics and no longer had time for recreational truth. Either way, the pages remain perfectly suitable for anyone wishing to explore the inner workings of Westminster from the safety of an armchair, where heckling remains refreshingly optional. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE.
- Softcover
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, GermanyBuchpark
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Condition: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.
